About three months ago, I asked whitequarki if he wants to add #trilema to the list his logger logs, which he did.

The logic behind my asking is, transparently enough I hope, "hey, some people conceivably read that thing, if #trilema appears it is therefore conceivable they might read about it, and get involved".

The reason I asked him as opposed to ~anyone else~ is that as far as the eye can see no one else exists! For all the pretense to ability, skill and qualification, Freenode's practically speaking deserted, to a degree sadly reminiscent of Facebook.

You can select bookmarkable message ranges by holding Shift and clicking on timestamp.

That three months have produced an okcupid bundleii in terms of bright new minds is so obvious and so utterly disgusting as to barely merit comment, so we'll pass it in silence. Instead, let's do the converse, and review the five-and-a-half dozen strong list of logged channels! Because why the hell not, right ? Maybe nobody has any time to do anything useful because everyone's so up to his ears in intricately documenting all the useful they aren't doing. So without further ado :

#arm-graphics : Dead.

#arm-notebook : Dead.

#bitcoin-wizards :Kanzureag3nt_zer0ing for greater glory, and sipa talking to himself in circles around how pantsuit.eucrypt (called by them libsecp256k1) isn't actually usable for its intended purpose. I suppose in a very technical understanding of the terms not-quite-dead, but much rests on how you define "quite".

#gridcoin-dev : Heh. Seriously now, don't you think it's VERY ridiculous to ~start off~ with separation for concerns that don't in fact exist even jointly ? It took #trilema YEARS before the need for separate castles was even vaguely entertained at the theoretical level! And years more before it started being acted upon, that theory! How dares Schmucky McSchmuckerson act as if he's better than that ?

#homecmos : Dead.

#huawei-g300 : Dead, obviously, but holy hell, someone actually made a Freenode chan for that piece of crap ?!

#imx6-dev : Dead.

#imx6-dongle : Dead.

#ipfs : Working, after a fashion -- some dood announcing a pull request, some other dood inquiring whether restarting was tried. Nothing of interestvi but still, some movement rather than nature morte with mackerel and violins.

#jruby : ~dead, unless you particularly care to find out when subbu is now known as subbu|break and assorted rss-reader chatter.

#libreoffice-ru : Not much, but not exactly dead. Mostly a localization effort, but не домохозяйки пади!!!

#ocaml : Live. Spent a whole morning dealing with C-idiocy and otherwise having the minority (of mostly just one) technically capable participants being painted into a corner by the "well meaning" crowd of idiots, sheer lunatics and their assorted enablers.

#openfpga : Not dead. Moneyshot :

03:51 <rqou> aargh, maintaining gpg is such a pain in the ***

I even dropped by!

#Paws : Dead.

#Paws.Nucleus : Mmmkay...

#picolisp : Not dead, seems rather social. Lots of idle wank, too.

#pony : Dead.

#pypy : Dead, other than a lengthy list of automatically reported failures to build and some desperate users looking for support.

#qihardware : Dead.

#radxa : Dead.

#reasonml : Dead.

#rom-rb : Dead.

#rubinius : Dead.

#ruby : Live. Unfortunately. You could not believe the pile of gunk. Moneyshot :

00:46 <Mr_Tea> any tips on how to refactor my chip8 emulator? it works, now it's time to make it good.
<vccvbgfhfg> better variable names for one.
<baweaver> In nread_key and read_key you're using return with a case statement. Ruby implies returns. It also looks like those two methods are heavily duplicated

[...]

<phaul> Mr_Tea: one other suggestion: are you familiar with any of the testing frameworks? rspec, minitest etc?
<Mr_Tea> nope

Ruby, you know ?

#ruby-core : Just a bunch of rss-reader noise, but not technically dead.

Like a counterfeiter's two dollar bill or the sea captain's tea, the okcupid bundle is very much not what the name purports, but something entirely else : a big fat bundle of nothing whatsoever. [↩]

I knew it's a good move to load "#arm-graphics : Dead." that line into a buffer! [↩]

If you must see :

00:20 <travis-ci> crystal-lang/crystal#f0e2be1 (ci/nightly - Add full workflows): The build passed. travis-ci.org/crystal-lang/crystal/builds/349571541
04:16 <FromGitter> <bararchy> It seems like we have a 3 month circle in Crystal where dev is being stale, people start getting annoyed , manas / core team say they will put more time into crystal/ be more communication to community etc.. And dev is getting back to regular speed.
04:17 <FromGitter> <bararchy> It seems we reached the 'community feels dev is stale' stage again
04:17 <FromGitter> <bararchy> Fun times LOL
04:40 <FromGitter> <watzon> Well I'm on Windows again for the time being so I'm going to try and help out with #5430
04:40 <DeBot> github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430 (Coordinate porting to Windows)
05:10 <FromGitter> <bararchy> @watzon a worthy cause :)
08:25 <FromGitter> <bararchy> Intresting news for anyone using LLVM on windows arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/chrome-on-windows-ditches-microsofts-compiler-now-uses-clang/
08:30 <FromGitter> <bew> Very good news!!
08:33 <FromGitter> <bararchy> though it says they still use the Windows linker
08:33 <FromGitter> <bararchy> but planning to switch to clang's linker soon
09:46 <FromGitter> <straight-shoota> Yeah but Crystal's Windows support has very basic problems compared to that
09:52 <FromGitter> <alex-lairan> There is a todo list for 1.0 release?
09:57 <FromGitter> <sclee15> Beside windows support and parallelism, what language infrastructure are we lacking? As a beginner i want to know it.
10:06 <FromGitter> <bararchy> @sclee15 not much which is painful, I guess look at the Github issues to see, a bug here, a needed thing there, and a more long term stuff which is the "normal" evolution of any languge
10:07 <FromGitter> <bararchy> @alex-lairan the 2 big things, Windows support and paralalisem
10:51 <FromGitter> <sdogruyol> hey everyone!
10:51 <FromGitter> <sdogruyol> we just got a thread up for the Next Crystal Team Live Q&A Session www.reddit.com/r/crystal_programming/comments/82e5q4/next_crystal_team_live_qa_session/
10:52 <FromGitter> <sdogruyol> feel free to share your ideas
10:52 <FromGitter> <sdogruyol> also on google groups groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/crystal-lang/FX5_mwNRMaE
11:05 <FromGitter> <bararchy> Right when needed @sdogruyol comes to the rescue of the community
11:05 <FromGitter> <bararchy> haha
11:22 <FromGitter> <straight-shoota> @alex-lairan there 's a
11:22 <FromGitter> <straight-shoota> Roadmap in the wiki
12:20 <FromGitter> <CImrie> @watzon I've written a first draft of RSA bindings - commented in here before submitting PR: github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/3941 If you get any time to help review/test that would be appreciated :)
13:20 <crystal-gh> [crystal] CImrie opened pull request #5777: [WIP] OpenSSL RSA Bindings (master...feature/openssl-rsa) git.io/vA59D
13:36 <FromGitter> <alex-lairan> Ok :)
15:18 <travis-ci> crystal-lang/crystal#bb5488c (ci/nightly - Allow branding that does not match branch/tag): The build passed. travis-ci.org/crystal-lang/crystal/builds/349848144
15:23 <FromGitter> <r00ster91> is there a way that I can forbid that the user can enter something? I mean for example when I do `sleep 5`. Then you can still enter something.
15:26 <crystal-gh> [crystal] vendethiel opened pull request #5779: Add an example of an operator delegation (master...patch-1) git.io/vAdJo
15:37 <FromGitter> <alex-lairan> @r00ster91 redirect STDIN do the job? :)
15:41 <FromGitter> <r00ster91> ah its STDIN.noecho thanks
15:51 <FromGitter> <bew> @r00ster91 this will just hide what the user is entering, not prevent him to enter anything at all
16:04 <FromGitter> <r00ster91> yes i know but thats fine i think
16:41 <FromGitter> <faustinoaq> Hi crystal community! elixirforum.com/t/will-amber-framework-crystal-perform-better-than-phoenix/9433/14 ^ A thread on Elixir community about Crystal [gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=5a9ec4c7888332ee3a0755f3]
17:53 <travis-ci> crystal-lang/crystal#601d3c9 (ci/nightly - Allow branding that does not match branch/tag): The build passed. travis-ci.org/crystal-lang/crystal/builds/349925716

I knocked out a pile of inane Unicode, as well as the string "https://". Tellingly, there weren't any http:// anythings. [↩]

Robert Jordens, python... what's the word for one of these incomprehending keyboard mashers ? "Script kiddie" is not really sufficiently derrogatory, seeing how these are virgins, yes, but 30yo virgins. [↩]